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>This problem is most often encountered when the GTK+
libraries can't be  found or are the wrong version. Generally,
the compiler will complain about an 'unresolved symbol'.</P
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>Make sure that the libraries can be
found. You want to edit <TT
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>/etc/ld.so.conf</TT
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include the directories which contain the GTK libraries,
so it looks something like:</P
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>/usr/X11R6/lib</TT
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<TT
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>Then you need to run /sbin/ldconfig as root. You can
find what libraries GTK requires using</P
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>pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --libs</TT
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>If your system doesn't use ld.so to find libraries
(such as Solaris), then you will have to use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variable (or compile the path into your program, which I'm
not going to cover here). So, with a Bourne type shell you can do (if
your GTK libraries are in /usr/local/lib):</P
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>and in a csh, you can do:</P
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